How to stop Eclipse formatter from adding trailing whitespaces in Javadoc

Question

I noticed an odd behavior of the Eclipse formatter (Strg+Alt+F) when running it on a piece of code like this:

/**
 * bar
 *
 * @return nothing
 */
Object foo() {
    return null;
}

It will add a trailing space character here:

/**
 * bar
 * <--- this line has a trailing space now!
 * @return nothing
 */
Object foo() {
    return null;
}

I know how to configure Eclipse to remove trailing whitespace, but it there a way to stop the formatter from adding it in the first place?

Answer 1

You can just go to Preferences -> Java -> Editor -> Save Actions and configure it to remove trailing whitespace.

In order to do that right-click on your project and go to Properties -> Java Editor -> Save Actions. From there you can enable project specific settings and configure it to remove trailing whitespace (among other useful things).